Archive for November, 2011

Eaton Music has announced that composer Harry Escott is set to score the upcoming British crime thriller Welcome to the Punch. The movie is directed by Eran Creevy and stars James McAvoy as a detective who forms an unlikely union with a criminal as they uncover a conspiracy. Mark Strong, Andrea Riseborough and Peter Mullan […]

Ilan Eshkeri to Score ‘Austenland’

Posted: November 30, 2011 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring Assignments
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Ilan Eshkeri has been hired to score the indie romantic comedy Austenland. The film based on a novel by Shannon Hale marks the directorial debut of Jerusha Hess who is best known for co-writing the screenplay of the 2004 indie hit Napoleon Dynamite with her husband Jared Hess. Austenland stars Keri Russell as a single […]

WaterTower Music will be releasing the soundtrack album for the drama Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, which marks the last major movie of the year for which no soundtrack announcement had been made yet (visit our upcoming soundtracks section for a full listing of the soundtracks coming out in the next couple of weeks). The […]

La-La Land Records has announced four new limited soundtrack albums, including two world premiere releases and two new editions of film music classics. First up is the previously unreleased score for Richard Donner’s 1988 holiday comedy Scrooged. The album includes the music from the movie by Danny Elfman. The project was Elfman’s first major Hollywood […]

TNT is launching the Mystery Movie Night, a series of contemporary crime dramas, based on popular novels. The first six movies that are premiering in the next few weeks have some notable composers working on the music for the films. Airing tommorow, November 30 is the mystery drama Ricochet based on a novel by Sandra […]

Intrada Records has announced two new soundtrack editions of classic film scores. The first release is a 2-disc edition of Jerry Goldsmith‘s score for the 1979 action adventure movie The Great Train Robbery. The album includes the world premiere release of the complete score on one disc, as well as the original 1979 soundtrack assembly […]

Director Michael J. Bassett has recently announced on his official blog that Jeff Danna and Akira Yamaoka are set to reunite to score the upcoming sequel Silent Hill: Revelation 3D. The movie based on the horror video game stars Adelaide Clemens, Kit Harington, Malcolm McDowell and Carrie-Anne Moss. Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean and Deborah Kara […]

In our second part of our fall television music series, we are taking a look at the new and returning shows on The CW: Among the new shows on the network is the fantasy teen drama The Secret Circle produced by Kevin Williamson (Scream, The Vampire Diaries) and starring Brittany Robertson, Thomas Dekker, Shelley Hennig, […]

Following our television music series from the summer, Film Music Reporter presents a listing of this fall’s new network dramas and comedies and its composers, as well as the major new cable shows of the season that feature original music. Featured in part 1 are the shows on FOX. Articles for all other networks will […]

Three new movies opened in wide release this past Wednesday: The film released in most theaters this Thanksgiving weekend is the new movie adaptation of The Muppets directed by James Bobin and starring Amy Adams, Jason Segel and Chris Cooper. The film’s score is written by Christophe Beck and Bret McKenzie serves as the project’s […]